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DJTF Google Hangout: Learn What It Takes to Take a Film Project from Concept to Reality

9/19/2013

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9/19/20137:00 PM

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Learn What It Takes to Take a Film Project from
Concept to Reality

The Digital
Journalism Task Force will host a Google Hangout with award winning filmmaker
Stacey Muhammad. During the one-hour chat journalists will learn how to turn their
digital dreams into a reality. The hangout will take place Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time. Tracie Powell,
Co-chair of NABJ Digital and Vice Chair - Policy, will moderate.

More about Stacey Muhammad

Award-winning filmmaker Stacey
Muhammad will discuss her newest work, "For Colored Boys:
Redemption." She'll share how to best use indiegogo or Kickstarter to
raise money for digital film projects as well as talk about the obstacles and
opportunities filmmakers face in telling stories digitally. We'll also chat
with Stacey about how journalism informs the way she tells stories (Is it the
same way journalism informs David Simon's story telling on 'The Wire' and
'Treme?).

"For Colored Boys" is
a web series based on the play 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow Is Enuf" and a dramatization of the real-life challenges
faced by black men in America. Episodesair
Sundays at 7:00 p.m. on
Youtube.

More about DJTF

As technology is enhancing
journalism and transforming the media landscape, journalists must adapt and use
new tools in order to survive and thrive. The NABJ Digital Journalism Task
Force is committed to keeping members of the National Association of Black Journalists
on the cutting edge as they navigate rapidly evolving newsrooms.

TITLE: Learn What It Takes to
Take a Film Project from Concept to Reality